Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 83167 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83167 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
I nearly giggled, even though I had no idea who made him listen to a play-by-play of the last Broncos game. All of the Hot Bunch were Broncos fans. But none of them were men to hang at Tex and Mom’s house with their one hundred and fifty cats.
Though, I had a feeling they’d dig on Bruce Lee films.
“Tex approves,” Mom told me.
“Great,” I replied, now with a smile in my voice.
“I still haven’t met him yet, Lottie,” she warned.
Mom was going to love Mo.
“You will Sunday,” I reminded her. “Now about Carla.”
“Text us her address, honey. We’ll head over there as soon’s we’re dressed.”
“Thanks, Mom,” I murmured.
“Anytime, darlin’ girl,” she murmured back. “Love you.”
“Love you too. And tell Tex I love him.”
To Tex, “Lottie sends her love.”
A low boom of “Sheeee-it.”
I smiled.
That meant Tex loved me too.
“Later, Mom.”
“See you Sunday, Lottie.”
We disconnected as I watched Mo lift Carla like she was a sheet draped over his arms.
My nipples tingled and my thoughts went where they shouldn’t.
That being my hope he was just as much of a powerhouse in bed.
He carried her behind the screen so she could dress.
“I’m takin’ her to the hospital,” Smithie informed me.
“Good,” I replied.
Mo came out from behind the screen.
“Mo’s gonna help me get her to my truck. You lock the door behind us,” Smithie ordered. “And don’t leave this room. Mo’ll be back as soon as we get Carla in the truck.”
I nodded.
Mo scowled at me.
“I’ll lock the door, Mo,” I assured.
He scowled some more before he dipped his chin.
I turned my attention to the screen, thus Carla, and called. “Mom and Tex are heading over to your place as soon as they get dressed. You might want to call your sitter.” I paused, “And warn her about Tex.”
“I’ll do it in the car. Thanks, Lottie,” Carla called back.
“Don’t mention it. Do you need help back there?”
“Uh…kinda,” she answered.
Yeah, she needed to hit the hospital.
I gave Mo then Smithie a look and headed behind the screen.
We got Carla dressed, I went, grabbed her purse and gave it to her before giving her a kiss on the cheek and a wish of good luck, and then Mo picked her up to take her out to the car.
I trailed them close at Mo’s heels so he’d know I was doing as ordered.
I started to lock the door practically before it was fully closed.
When I turned back to the room, I realized it was weird to be alone. The only time I’d been alone for days was in the shower.
I barely got Carla’s address texted to Mom and my false eyelashes off to do a full makeup cleanup in order to do a full makeup put on when there was a pounding at the door and a shout of, “Mo!”
Well, he didn’t jack around.
I felt my mouth turn up as I hustled to the door to let him in.
He crowded my space to get back in, which meant back to guarding me, and I realized with him, falling in love would probably be incremental.
He’d do things like that, every day. Little ones, maybe some big ones, but things like that every day that would make me fall more in love with him.
Which, taken to its natural conclusion, meant, if we worked, I’d be falling in love with him, little by little, more and more every day until the day I died.
And that soooooo worked for me.
I hid my smile at this thought and quickly backed out of his space so I didn’t have the urge to pounce on him (or didn’t give in to the urge I already had) and didn’t make things harder for him to fight his urge to pounce on me.
I moved back to my station.
“I’m surprised you didn’t make Smithie call a bouncer to take Carla out.”
“They have four persons of interest out there. They need eyes on the crowd.”
My head whipped around to him. “Really?”
He dipped his chin.
“New guys?”
“All of them regulars who haven’t been back in a while. All of them guys who creep the waitresses out. All of them guys who bouncers have red flagged since they started coming. None of them guys who’ve been here since the letter was sent.”
I felt a tickle at the back of my neck.
“You think one of them—?”
“I think they’ll have tails tonight and Hawk will have men in all of their houses the minute they leave for work tomorrow morning and we’ll know.”
Holy shit.
This might be over soon.
And holy shit.
They were searching houses.
“They’re searching houses?” I asked.
“Yup.”
“They can do that?”
“They can do whatever they want if they don’t get caught.”
Whoa.
“But, won’t it be inadmissible if they search like that?” I queried. “I mean, they can’t get it to law enforcement and have the cops be able to get a real search warrant if they find something illegally like that.”